Principal c/c++ engineer with DNS

Role Overview:

We’re looking for an exceptionally passionate, logical, and smart Backend Developer to join our core tech team. This role goes beyond writing code — you’ll help shape the architecture, lead entire backend team if needed, and be deeply involved in designing scalable systems almost from scratch.

This is a high-impact opportunity to work directly with the founders and play a pivotal role in building the core product. If you’re looking to grow alongside a fast-growing startup, take complete ownership, and influence the direction of the technology and product, this role is made for you.

Why Clink?

Clink is a fast-growing product startup building innovative solutions in the food-tech space. We’re on a mission to revolutionize how restaurants connect with customers and manage offers seamlessly. Our platform is a customer-facing app that needs to scale rapidly as we grow. We also aim to leverage Generative AI to enhance user experiences and drive personalization at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and completely own high-performance backend systems.
• Architect scalable, secure, and efficient system designs.
• Own database schema design and optimization for performance and reliability.
• Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, product managers, and designers.
• Guide and mentor junior team members .
• Explore and experiment with Generative AI capabilities for product innovation.
• Participate in code reviews and ensure high engineering standards.

Must-Have Skills:

• 2–5 years of experience in backend development at a product-based company.
• Strong expertise in database design and system architecture.
• Hands-on experience building multiple production-grade applications.
• Solid programming fundamentals and logical problem-solving skills.
• Experience with Python or Ruby on Rails (one is mandatory).
• Experience integrating third-party APIs and services.

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Familiarity with Generative AI tools, APIs, or projects.
• Contributions to open-source projects or personal side projects.
• Exposure to frontend basics (React, Vue, or similar) is a plus.
• Exposure to containerization, cloud deployment, or CI/CD pipelines.

What We’re Looking For:

• Extremely high aptitude and ability to solve tough technical problems.
• Passion for building products from scratch and shipping fast.
• A hacker mindset — someone who builds cool stuff even in their spare time.
• Team player who can lead when required and work independently when needed.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps / Kubernetes Engineer. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in container orchestration, infrastructure as code, and GitOps workflows, with hands-on experience in Azure cloud environments. You will be responsible for designing, deploying, and managing modern cloud-native infrastructure and applications at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

· Manage and operate Kubernetes clusters (AKS / K3s) for large-scale applications.

· Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform or OpenTofu for scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure provisioning.

· Deploy and manage applications using Helm and ArgoCD with GitOps best practices.

· Work with Podman and Docker as container runtimes for development and production environments.

· Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth deployment pipelines and CI/CD integrations.

· Optimize infrastructure for cost, performance, and reliability within Azure cloud.

· Troubleshoot, monitor, and maintain system health, scalability, and performance.

Required Skills & Experience:

· Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (AKS / K3s) cluster orchestration.

· Proficiency in Terraform or OpenTofu for infrastructure as code.

· Experience with Helm and ArgoCD for application deployment and GitOps.

· Solid understanding of Docker / Podman container runtimes.

· Cloud expertise in Azure with experience deploying and scaling workloads.

· Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and logging frameworks.

· Knowledge of best practices around cloud security, scalability, and high availability.

Preferred Qualifications:

· Contributions to open-source projects under Apache 2.0 / MPL 2.0 licenses.

· Experience working in global distributed teams across CST/PST time zones.

· Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities :

• Lead the development of the backend systems for our client's first product.
• Build reliable, secure, and performant backend systems.
• Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team.
• Mentor and provide feedback to teammates.
• You should have a min of 8 years of software development experience and management.
• Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure, and performant.
• Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests, good intuition for REST API design
• Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling.
• Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems.
• Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimizing SQL queries.

• Golang, Java, Python, Ruby, Node.

We are looking for a Java Developer with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications. . You'll be required to apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with your many stakeholders daily to stay focused on common goals You will be part of a talented software team that works on mission-critical applications

Responsibility

• Write automated test cases to test code.
• Excellent teamwork skills with an ability to get the work done with minimal
• Experience with multiple mobile platforms is a plus.
• A passion and will to accept any new technical challenge that may come across.
• Linux scripting and SSH terminal
• Conceptual, Working knowledge of - DBMS, SQL, PL/SQL.
• Ability to write clean and documented code.

• A team player can provide technical expertise for a small team of developers.
• Strong hands-on and experience in core Java - Java/J2EE
• Design and implement new features, create UI, debugging, and data modeling.
• To update and sync with other team members daily.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both written and oral, at all levels to various technical and non-technical audiences
• Testing all applications against software and hardware versions. Provide timely turnaround and documentation of things implemented.

Additional preferred skills * JSP/Servlets OR JQuery/HTML5 AND JavaScript

Requirements:-

• Working knowledge of - MySQL.
• Working experience on Struts/Spring.
• Experience with web services standards and related technologies - SOAP/Rest, AJAX, JSON, and XML.

Required Candidate profile

• Working knowledge of Node-Sync, callback hell and ways to control asynchronous behavior of Node functions.
• Strong command on ES6(EcmaScript) or Javascript and its concepts like prototypes, call back, closures etc
• Should have deep understanding of Native Node.js, Express.js, HAPI.js and middlewares.
• Candidates must have proper understanding and command on RESTful API development and consumptions.
• Candidates must know to use promises, async-await to control synchronization of business logic components.
• Candidates must have knowledge of JWT, oAuth and passport.js for user authentication.
• Candidates must have knowledge of GIT, Bit-bucket.
• Candidates must have knowledge of application deployment.
• Experience with NoSQL databases eg mongodb (preferred).

About the Company:

Progcap is a Fintech and AI company that pioneers alternative credit scoring for small businesses using proprietary data from non-traditional sources. We aim to fuel credit to 100 million under-banked SMEs in the emerging markets worldwide with an initial focus on India.

Progcap is Sequoia-backed Series A startup, comprising of top tier talent from finance, technology, data science and operations. The Company is the recipient of the World Bank's "SME Product Innovation of the year", 2018 award, Madrid.

What you will be doing:

• Lead and provide first level supervision to project teams and ensures successful delivery of tasks assigned to the team along with sharing of project updates & related communication with stakeholders.
• Writing and ensuring reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Managing data across multiple databases and providing analysis to stakeholders.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
• Implementation of security and data protection (permission classes and middleware.)
• Implementation of user authentication and authorization across multiple systems, servers, and environments.

What you bring:

• Should have minimum 4 years of experience in development using Python and 1 year in leading Python based projects.
• Strong experience in Application lifecycle management – development, testing and deployment.
• Strong understanding and experience with code version control tools (git, svn, etc.)
• Expert in Python with working experience on Django, AWS, Lambda, RDS, NoSQL, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Integration of data storage solutions redis, postgresql, mysql (big query, big table, pubsub, appengine).
• Strong in data structures and algorithms
• Preferably candidates with Financial/lending Applications development experience with any Fintech Co.